DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Do its pupils learn to be passengers? (6,6) 7. Cried for a drink (5) 8. Doctor takes beer around at an easy pace (5) 9. Steal about in the laboratory (3) 10. Interpreter makes poor

exits (9) 11. Good-looking abstainer in quarry (6) 12. Fight doctor in protective garment (6) 15. It may well follow a deuce of a game (9) 17. Matching cravat? (3) 18. Praise some of the opposite sex to ludicrous lengths (5) 19. Go after net profit, perhaps (5) 21. Now at number one returned

for award ceremony (12)

Down

1. The very best sportsman offers sound reproduction (6,6) 2. Show agreement with sleepy mistake? (3) 3. Waste letter to grate harshly (6) 4. The way the boss speaks in the graveyard? (9) 5. Alternative bit of circumnavigation? (5) 6. An arm up one's sleeve, so to speak (6,6) 7. Under 100 competent to send

a telegram (5) 10. Goes fishing with poor net and

makes it all twisted (9) 13. Put money on the Spanish nut

(5) 14. Male bird? (6) 16. His choice is to get cross (5) 20. Can such a girl come from the

country? (3)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Inculcator (12) 7. Essential (5) 8. Condescend (5) 9. Sick (3) 10. Uneven (9) 11. Queer one (6) 12. Disappear (6) 15. Meddle (9) 17. Prohibit (3) 18. Custom (5) 19. Reason (5) 21. Break (12)

Down

1. Frugal (12) 2. Perform (3) 3. Entice (6) 4. Appoint (9) 5. Mar (5) 6. Fear (12) 7. Well-grounded (5) 10. Plead (9) 13. Dye (5) 14. Mend (6) 16. Coach (5) 20. Breach (3)